The US military’s most expensive fighter jet, the F-35 entered service in 2015 but reportedly still faces a whole array of issues that could either put the lives of pilots at risk or jeopardize missions.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has asserted that the state-of-the-art F-35 US warplane “would have no chance against” a remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

“The competitor should be a drone fighter plane that’s remotely controlled by a human, but with its maneuvers augmented by autonomy,” the SpaceX founder and Tesla chief executive tweeted on Friday.

When asked during the USAF conference whether he had “any innovative ideas about how aerial combat could be revolutionized”, Musk prompted “murmurs and laughter” by arguing it’s already pointless to talk the “fighter jet era.”